"[…] this portrait probably came from the forum's Augusteum (a shrine dedicated to the imperial family). […] In this portrait, the hair is combed forward, with short bangs over the forehead, formed by straight and regularly laid locks that open in...

"Alice Aycock […] bases her forms on the logic of the imagination. […] Aycock revels in conjuring the past. The rich associative content of her sculpture is often nurtured by fanciful titles and accompanying texts that refer to history, literature,...

"By the turn of the 1950s Rothko had arrived at the pictorial format which was to serve him for the rest of his career; horizontal lozenges of soft-edged color hovering in a large vertically oriented field. These clouds of color were seen by him as...

"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items. These...

"Duchamp's Boîte 'unpacked' in such a way that certain sections slid out to become free-standing display boards, whilst a sheaf of folders and black mounts bore other reproductions of works from his output. In all, it contained 69 items. These...

"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...

"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...

"In contrast to Mesopotamia and Egypt, no temples or monumental statues of gods, kings, or monsters have been found in Minoan Crete. Large wooden images may once have existed, but what remains of Minoan sculpture in the round is small in scale,...

"In the mid-1980s Richter produced abstract paintings as well as realist 'photo-paintings'. […] he appeared here to be recapitulating the ideological options underpinning postwar modernism in so far as his own transplantation from Eastern to...

"Mosaic from the Augustan era that decorated the open triclinium of domus I, 5, 2; it is an allegory of the fleeting nature of earthly pleasures and of the leveling power of death. Below the skull, a butterfly and a wheel evoke the soul and its...

"The assertive flatness of the implacable field of red is emphasized by the linear vertical 'zips'. Rather than functioning as 'drawing' within space, these reinforce and delimit the space as a whole. White 'zips' in Newman's works also evoke...

"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine. The...

A dairy worker dressed in white handles large stainless steel dairy containers as they come off of a conveyer belt. To his left is a scale that reads "Fairbanks Springless." The worker is facing a piece of equipment that says "Sterile Rinse"...

A group of seven men wearing suits, hats and overcoats stand on a vacant plot of land. One of the men holds a shovel. A sign on one of the buildings behind them says Ferncliff Feed & Grain. The invoice indicates that the land is at Logan and...

A litter of puppies eat bananas on a scale at Denunzio's Fruit Market (108 W. Jefferson Street). Bananas and boxes are stacked up behind them. The scale reads, "Toledo. No springs, honest weight." An adult dog lies on another table on top of a pile...

A man holds a baseball bat with two leaning in front of him at Hillerich & Bradsby in the Louisville Slugger warehouse. Bats are stacked on the shelves around the man and one is on a scale next to him.

A picture of a room, presumably in a dairy facility of some sort. On the left side of the room is a cabinet with a countertop. On the countertop there are several glass beakers and a scale. The right side of the room is lined with five pieces of...

A rope strung in front of the James H. Button Co. has a sign advertising the auction of the property. The Idanette Restaurant is in the building next door. A scale is standing in the doorway of the restaurant.